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Weekly Contest #143
Eugene laid with his back to an old log. Wisps of white settled above him. When he looked out too, the whitecaps of brisk wind and old men piloting boat’s wakes left him shuddering, as if he could only look out through the white of his eyes. To his left a family laughed. They had brought a bb gun, and one around his age had rappelled up, defying gravity, the side of the cliff face they had all taken to get down here. The kid, standing menacingly above, threw down branches which his siblings tried to shoot in the air. To the right side of the...
Weekly Contest #141
You sat at the table waiting for me. When the candlelight in front of you blew out from a wayward gust of wind through the window, you weren’t mad. The white overhead lights filled the room enough that the candle of faint scent hadn’t mattered. You were mad that I was late. The waiter came over to you for the second time. And he said, “You should-a move, I-a swear. Or at least-a order.” So you stared at him. After processing the fake accent, you looked around. You knew that there was no one to take the table if you left, the only othe...
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